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Emergency funding: an important step toward change

Joanna Bourke — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:48:40 GMT

Joanna Bourke describes her relief that Harriet Harman, Minister for Women has announced �1 million funding for Rape Crisis centres. She says that Harman's step is important but it must simply be the beginning.

Rape myths past and present

Joanna Bourke — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:02:26 GMT

Popular prejudices estimate about half rape victims are lying, but research shows just 3% of rape allegations are false - yet another myth about sexual violence

When killing had to stop

Joanna Bourke — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT

For centuries Europe was a prickly landscape of heavily armed nation states. Now the continent has largely lost its enthusiasm for conflict. How did that happen?

An orgy of inhumanity

Joanna Bourke — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:00:00 GMT

The War of the World: history's age of hatred Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 746pp, �25 ISBN 0713997087 Why was the 20th century marked by so many massacres, wars and genocides? And will the next 100 years be any different? Joanna Bourke explores our capacity for hatred

Silence in the face of slaughter. The US and Britain have been attacked both for ignoring genocide and for intervening to stop it. After the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the massacres in the Balkans and the wars in Rwanda, are we any closer to the right answers?

Joanna Bourke — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:00:00 GMT

A Problem from Hell: America and the age of genocide Samantha Power Flamingo, 656pp, �9.99 ISBN 007172990 Violence: terrorism, genocide, war Wolfgang Sofsky Granta, 273pp, �17.99

Willing executioners

Joanna Bourke — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:00:00 GMT

The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution Mark Roseman Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 152pp, �9.99 ISBN 071399570X